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01/08/09 |
Poor |
 "An 88-minute film that feels as though it'll last till July..." |
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Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
01/08/09 |
Poor |
"An 88-minute film that feels as though it'll last till July..." |
| 3. |
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01/14/09 |
Good |
 "...less biopic than an engaging, heartbreaking, small-scale drama about a lost little boy who wants to make his mom proud but keeps breaking her heart." |
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01/15/09 |
Good |
"...thoroughly inoffensive... produced by Biggie's mom and executive-produced by Combs, who do just enough to burnish the legend without tarnishing it." |
| 5. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
01/15/09 |
Good |
"...doesn't wash away Biggie's sins, but it absolves him too easily; as every deed's done, it's explained away by the ghost of Biggie spouting hindsight wisdom." |
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02/04/09 |
Poor |
 "The jokes, such as they are, consist of little more than Star Wars lines recited out of context... You're better off watching 'The Star Wars Holiday Special' on YouTube." |
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02/05/09 |
Poor |
"...a dust-gatherer about four friends traveling cross country to sneak a peek at a rough cut of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace..." |
| 8. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
02/05/09 |
Poor |
"Every scene here is a money shot punctuated by some obscure line of dialogue meant to serve as a punch line." |
| 9. |
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03/04/09 |
Very Good |
 "...the performances are transcendent -- especially Fanning's, as the little girl who wants to get better... as she slowly disappears through the Looking Glass." |
| 10. |
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03/04/09 |
Poor |
 "...plays like something out of an indie-film paint-by-numbers... voila, off to the film festival circuit we shall go in search of shallow-end enlightenment." |
| 11. |
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03/05/09 |
Very Good |
"...profoundly stirring..." |
| 12. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
03/05/09 |
Very Good |
"...its excursions into whimsy (Phoebe in conversation with the Mad Hatter and Red Queen, say) are clumsy..." |
| 13. |
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03/05/09 |
Poor |
"The acting doesn't help -- just how many cue cards were used in this production, anyhow?... feels like a rinky-dink redo of HBO's new 'Eastbound & Down' series..." |
| 14. |
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03/11/09 |
Fair |
 "...it's simply hard to buy the perky Adams and pretty Blunt as schlumpy losers trapped in the bland flyover with an Oscar-winner stuck in rerun mode." |
| 15. |
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03/12/09 |
Fair |
"...features terrific performances (from Adams, especially, as the ex-high school cheerleader now at the bottom of the pile) buried beneath contrivances and clichés..." |
| 16. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
03/12/09 |
Fair |
"Director Christine Jeffs, working with Megan Holley's screenplay, renders the light and dark as a muddy shade of sitcom-pilot gray." |
| 17. |
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03/18/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a complete, fully realized, delightfully novel redo of the hoariest of forms: the meet-cute, love-at-first-sight, break-up-and-make-up, racing-to-the-altar slapstick weepy..." |
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03/19/09 |
Outstanding |
"Half the genius is right in the casting: As odd couples go, Rudd and Segel are closer to Randall and Klugman than Lemmon and Matthau, but you get the point." |
| 19. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
03/19/09 |
Outstanding |
"Just as we thought the 'bromantic comedy' had overstayed its welcome, the genre reaches its highest point..." |
| 20. |
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03/26/09 |
Excellent |
 "It's not a masterpiece, but it's most certainly a milestone." |
